Luke Pearce
@endingexplained.bsky.social
Working on my first novel: a millennial coming of age story about a wannabe hipster caught between London and his hometown.
https://linktr.ee/lukewriter
https://linktr.ee/lukewriter
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
May 16, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Leo Robson on Ari Aster's 'Eddington':
'It’s as if the sensationalism of the subject matter alerted Aster to the virtues of patience and modulation...'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
'It’s as if the sensationalism of the subject matter alerted Aster to the virtues of patience and modulation...'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Leo Robson, Law and Order — Sidecar
Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’.
newleftreview.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Leo Robson on Ari Aster's 'Eddington':
'It’s as if the sensationalism of the subject matter alerted Aster to the virtues of patience and modulation...'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
'It’s as if the sensationalism of the subject matter alerted Aster to the virtues of patience and modulation...'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
July 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Her “queer individuality” is public deity, and that the unexamined life is not worth living is inviolable truth.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
We are all Mrs Dalloway now
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
www.newstatesman.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Her “queer individuality” is public deity, and that the unexamined life is not worth living is inviolable truth.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Just bought Burning Down the House by Jack Byrne
🚨SALE🚨
The Summer Sale is on! This weekend EVERY order in the shop has 25% off with code SUMMER25, including all preorders. And for the discerning eye, some new books and covers have been added, so take a look now and grab yourself a bargain!
www.northodox.co.uk/bookstore
The Summer Sale is on! This weekend EVERY order in the shop has 25% off with code SUMMER25, including all preorders. And for the discerning eye, some new books and covers have been added, so take a look now and grab yourself a bargain!
www.northodox.co.uk/bookstore
June 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Just bought Burning Down the House by Jack Byrne
‘a novel that truly said something new about being online probably wouldn’t mention the internet at all’
thepointmag.com/criticism/cr...
thepointmag.com/criticism/cr...
Crushing Banalities | The Point Magazine
2018, Germany. A bungalow, with anthracite walls and a flat roof. Jerome Daimler’s parents purchased it. They’re divorced now. He lives there alone.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘a novel that truly said something new about being online probably wouldn’t mention the internet at all’
thepointmag.com/criticism/cr...
thepointmag.com/criticism/cr...
Best cartoon around 👇🏻
will be premiering in about 2 and a half hours, be there or be square
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XneT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XneT...
Punch Punch Forever episode 3 should be coming out on Friday unless both my computers explode and then i am shot!
June 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Best cartoon around 👇🏻
‘The Corrections chimes with a hundred pop songs and cartoon strips and American movies now: what it fails to do is what it does, and in its failure lies its success.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Andrew O’Hagan · Everything Must Go! American Beauties
www.lrb.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘The Corrections chimes with a hundred pop songs and cartoon strips and American movies now: what it fails to do is what it does, and in its failure lies its success.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
‘What we can say is that White Male Writers are no longer the predominant kind of writers in the American literary landscape, the way they used to be.’
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...
The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise
In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature toda...
www.currentaffairs.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
‘What we can say is that White Male Writers are no longer the predominant kind of writers in the American literary landscape, the way they used to be.’
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-whi...
A great line on the milquetoast Kier Starmer:
‘An invitation to help shape an approach to a mission – who could resist that stirring call?’
‘An invitation to help shape an approach to a mission – who could resist that stirring call?’
‘The UK economy has a persistent problem with productivity which nobody understands and nobody knows how to fix. The OBR keeps coming up with numbers that assume the problem will go away, which it refuses to do.’
John Lanchester on Britain’s growth issues: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester on Britain’s growth issues: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · Short Cuts: Labour’s Straitjacket
The Tories, in office, prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying ‘It’s a Trap’ and then next to...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A great line on the milquetoast Kier Starmer:
‘An invitation to help shape an approach to a mission – who could resist that stirring call?’
‘An invitation to help shape an approach to a mission – who could resist that stirring call?’
Novelist Emily Gould takes a hard look at today’s literary landscape—and at how things have changed since Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer first appeared on the scene.
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...
How Relevant Are the Literary Jonathans?
In advance of Franzen’s new book, Emily Gould takes stock of the scene.
www.vanityfair.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Novelist Emily Gould takes a hard look at today’s literary landscape—and at how things have changed since Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer first appeared on the scene.
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...
www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...
'We’re all looking for refuge from slop—the treatment of art as content, an aesthetic turn born of the internet and increasingly prevalent in the realms of movies and music and books. Seriousness is slop’s opposite. But what makes a serious book is up for debate.'
Marketing difficulty | Blank
The fantasy of the serious novel.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
'We’re all looking for refuge from slop—the treatment of art as content, an aesthetic turn born of the internet and increasingly prevalent in the realms of movies and music and books. Seriousness is slop’s opposite. But what makes a serious book is up for debate.'
‘Some of it will be missed; the part that cannot be put into words.’
‘In 1870, the year before Synge was born, only 3 per cent of Irish farmers, peasants or not, owned their own land; the rest were tenants. Within sixty years, the ratio had been reversed.’
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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February 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
‘Some of it will be missed; the part that cannot be put into words.’
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week.
Read and follow them here:
go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk
Read and follow them here:
go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk
January 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week.
Read and follow them here:
go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk
Read and follow them here:
go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk
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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.
January 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.
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Me: If you wear a bikini to the zoo is it a zucchini
LeBron: I...is this the right room? The nurse said you were dying
Me: Dying to meet you
LeBron: I...is this the right room? The nurse said you were dying
Me: Dying to meet you
January 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Me: If you wear a bikini to the zoo is it a zucchini
LeBron: I...is this the right room? The nurse said you were dying
Me: Dying to meet you
LeBron: I...is this the right room? The nurse said you were dying
Me: Dying to meet you
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I’ve created an email template and link to email MPs about the danger of Musk and Twitter. Happy for anyone at all to use and share open.substack.com/pub/gemmacla...
January 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’ve created an email template and link to email MPs about the danger of Musk and Twitter. Happy for anyone at all to use and share open.substack.com/pub/gemmacla...
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i hope this ishmael finds you whale
January 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i hope this ishmael finds you whale
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Las Vegas police "taking all precautions" and looking for possible devices after Cybertruck explodes at Trump Hotel, spokesman says
January 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Las Vegas police "taking all precautions" and looking for possible devices after Cybertruck explodes at Trump Hotel, spokesman says
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A new study found that the British Empire's colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920. While the British stole $45tn in just over 200 years.
This is what the empire was really like, starvation.
This is what the empire was really like, starvation.
January 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A new study found that the British Empire's colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920. While the British stole $45tn in just over 200 years.
This is what the empire was really like, starvation.
This is what the empire was really like, starvation.
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Book Cover of the Day:
January 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
How do production companies like A24 fit into this as they are seemingly bucking the trend?
#MovieSky #FilmSky #Netflix
#MovieSky #FilmSky #Netflix
I have an essay about how Netflix destroyed the movies in the new issue of @nplusonemag.com. Read it online and in print!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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December 29, 2024 at 6:27 PM